off the WALL productions at Carnegie Stage A Pittsburgh Theater

Daina Michelle Griffith & Virginia Wall Gruenert - Photo by Heather Mull This weekend is your last chance to catch the Pittsburgh Premiere of ‘WELL’ – a hilarious, heartfelt seriocomedy. Come join us for our last weekend of performances.  How often do you have the opportunity to enjoy a play in a theater so intimate that you’re not only almost sitting on the stage, but where the actors are blatantly aware of you? Well, by Lisa Kron, is written in a unique autobiographical style, where Lisa, the daughter, has brought her mother to our stage to ‘make an exploration of universal issues’.  What does that mean?  That means that Lisa, always thinking of herself, is perhaps using her mother a bit as she tells the story of her own life through a play.  But the fun is just beginning!  Ann, the mother, has some different recollections of Lisa’s childhood and early adult years, and she doesn’t hesitate to point those differences out to Lisa. The play gets funni...

Daina Michelle Griffith, Virginia Wall Gruenert, Tony Bingham, Linda Haston, Alan Bomar Jones, Susie McGregor-Laine.  Photo by Heather Mull What is Theater?  According to Wikipedia , “Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.” Read on to see how the unique seriocomedy Well, opening this Friday, December 13 , fits the Wikipedia definition of Theater and why it is a must see in Pittsburgh Theater . Tickets on Sale Now . Theater is... “A Collaborative Form of Fine Art” :  Our technical and artistic team, led by Stage Manager Erika Cuenca, have collaborated to prepare a stage that will make you believe you are sitting in watching the private mother-daughter affairs in the mother’s living room through the wonderful use of the set, props, costumes, lighting and sound. “That Uses Live Performers” :  Some of Pittsburgh’s fi...